Магистратура
2024/2025
Корпоративная социальная ответственность: бизнес и власть
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Политика. Экономика. Философия / Politics. Economics. Philosophy)
Направление:
41.04.04. Политология
Кто читает:
Департамент политики и управления
Где читается:
Факультет социальных наук
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Мясников Станислав Александрович
Прогр. обучения:
Политика. Экономика. Философия
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
6
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The purpose of this course is to provide students with knowledge of how Corporate Social Responsibility became an important instrument for modern companies. Now it affects social (including charity) and labor conditions both for workers and the citizens of the country. Business and the state have options to cooperate in CSR projects which build a framework for formal and informal linkages between companies, state, and society.The course discusses modern CSR strategies and analyses cases, as well as models of standardization and reporting on companies’ sustainability.
Learning Objectives
- To provide understanding of what is CSR
- To provide students with understanding of new sustainable strategies
- To make students able to analyse CSR strategies
- To provide examples of State and Business partnerships in framework of CSR
- To provide understanding of CSR theories
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Understands the role of different concepts and approaches to CSR
- Learn how to distinguish between different CSR concepts
- Able to understand different sustainable strategies
- Able to understand relevant ESG trends
- Able to understand sustainable reporting standards
- Able to understand different approaches to CSR
- Able to build CSR communication strategies
Course Contents
- CSR preface and theory
- Business impacts: industrialisation, neoliberalism, globalisation
- Sustainable business strategies
- ESG
- Sustainable reporting standards
- Western and Russian models of CSR
- CSR efficiency, process, and remboursement indicators
- Technologies of sustainable programms realisation (social, ecological)
- Communication and challenges of CSR
- CSR and governmental regulations
- CSR for small and middle enterprises
- Case analysis
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 2nd module0.3 * Final group project + 0.4 * Seminar Activity + 0.3 * Test
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Corporate social responsibility : readings and cases in a global context, , 2008
- Corporate social responsibility across Europe, , 2005
- Corporate social responsibility and urban development : lessons from the South, Werna, E., 2009
- Corporate social responsibility in the 21st century : debates, models and practices across government, law and business, Horrigan, B., 2010
- Corporate social responsibility vs. government regulation: institutional analysis with an applica..., Polishchuk, L., 2009
- Corporate Social Responsibility: (Elements in Business Strategy). (2019). Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.research.vu.nl.publications.ef42ba08.0a1f.4601.ac2a.c85776af15de
- Henry, L. A., Nysten-Haarala, S., Tulaeva, S., & Tysiachniouk, M. (2016). Corporate Social Responsibility and the Oil Industry in the Russian Arctic: Global Norms and Neo-Paternalism. Europe-Asia Studies, 68(8), 1340–1368. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2016.1233523
- Idowu, S. O., Vertigans, S., & Schiopoiu Burlea, A. (2017). Corporate Social Responsibility in Times of Crisis : Practices and Cases From Europe, Africa and the World. Cham: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1495335
- Jenkins, H. (2009). A ‘business opportunity’ model of corporate social responsibility for small- and medium-sized enterprises. Business Ethics: A European Review, 18(1), 21–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2009.01546.x
- Kolk, A. (2016). The social responsibility of international business: From ethics and the environment to CSR and sustainable development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.08.010
- Kolk, A. (2016). The social responsibility of international business: From ethics and the environment to CSR and sustainable development. Journal of World Business, (1), 23. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.eee.worbus.v51y2016i1p23.34
- Lee, M. P. (2008). A review of the theories of corporate social responsibility: Its evolutionary path and the road ahead. International Journal of Management Reviews, 10(1), 53–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2007.00226.x
- Morsing, M., & Schultz, M. (2006). Corporate social responsibility communication: stakeholder information, response and involvement strategies. Business Ethics: A European Review, 15(4), 323–338. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2006.00460.x
- PEDERSEN, E. R. (2006). Making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Operable: How Companies Translate Stakeholder Dialogue into Practice. Business & Society Review (00453609), 111(2), 137–163. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8594.2006.00265.x
- Reinhardt, F. L., Stavins, R. N., & Vietor, R. H. K. (2008). Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.DBA5307A
- The social responsibility of international business: From ethics and the environment to CSR and sustainable development. (2016). Journal of World Business, 51(1), 23–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.08.010
- Vargas, M. J. (2018). In Defense of E. Merrick Dodd: Corporate Social Responsibility in Modern Corporate Law and Investment Strategy. Business Lawyer, 73(2), 337–374. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=129361495
- Veronika Bashtovaya. (2014). CSR reporting in the United States and Russia. Social Responsibility Journal, (1), 68. https://doi.org/10.1108/SRJ-11-2012-0150?utm_campaign=RePEc&WT.mc_id=RePEc
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Corporate social responsibility : doing the most good for your company and your cause, Kotler, P., 2005
- Corporate social responsibility : the role of business in sustainable development, Williams, O. F., 2014
- Corporate social responsibility in contemporary China, Zhao, J., 2014